Sunday Vaux le Vicomte

A fine day of 16C is forecast and delivered. Our Versailles resident friend Jacques picks us up at 9.30 to take us to the Vaux le Vicomte 55 kilometres (1 hour by car) west of Paris. It is a beautiful chateau of the 17 century.
We spend all morning looking at the Chateau, carriage museum and gardens. Louis XIV was so envious of this beautiful castle that he had the tax collecting owner trialled and jailed for the rest of his life for corruption. The key tradesmen (including the garden architect, Andre Le Notre) were then employed by the Sun King to work on Versailles Palace.
After lunch at the on site restaurant Jacques drops us back at Port d'Orleans and we decide to walk back through the 14th to the apartment. Some of the ground is the same as covered on Friday but the weather is sunny and very beautiful.

Dinner at Chinese (Le Village de Chine) in the 1eme. Walk home via the Louvre and watch the ET lights over the Seine. One has to agree Paris is still the most romantic city in the world. Walking thru Jardin Tulleries under the full moon with lights reflecting from Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Invalides, Concord and Notre Dame .... you can almost hear a french love song playing as the backdrop ....


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